Our pedagogical perspective on encounter and communication of people with different cultural backgrounds suggests a diverse and open picture about people. It is, first of all, imprinted through our life experience, pedagogical competences and philosophical thinking. In our practical work and our theoretical reflections we try to integrate thoughts from system theory, didactics from constructivism, concepts from psychodrama and group dynamics and current philosophical aspects of “the art of living”.

We see individuals with their resources as creative, inventive and formative (homo creator).

The individual as the subject is influenced by his cultural contexts. He never stops learning and internalises pictures and patterns of behavior, which seem totally “normal” to him. His (social) environment reacts accordingly with appreciation or rejection of either conformism or lack of adaptation.However, he is not totally (culturally) determined through this constant reconstruction. At the same time he actively influences his environment by acting or not acting. He is a co-creator and designer of his life and working world, an everyday “culture creator“. Then he is also responsible for the consequences of his actions. The individuals’ creative potential for inventions and constructions is in the centre of the work of context.